This was the week we put in the two large steel lintels which were going to support the existing house brick and block wall and create the kitchen opening into the extension.  First thing was to get our hands on eight acro props and strong boys plus an alloy tower so we could work safely at height.  Once we had the stuff on site we set about getting our acro’s and strong boys into position to take the load of the brick and block work.  On Tuesday we took out six courses of exterior brick work and two courses of interior block work.  Once that was all done and we had our opening to work with and we got the first lintel lifted up and put into position.  We followed that by getting the second lintel into position the following day.  We propped up both lintels and set about doing the brick work for the four pad stones for the lintels to sit on.
Andy and Liam the brickies were back on site on Thursday (and Friday) while Dane and I took another ride down to Harlow to pick up some more of our pre-coloured mortar mix to see us through to the end of the job which Dane had managed to get his hands on for free by sweet talking the female rep!  We also ordered one of the windows.  We finished off the week by doing a number of the smaller jobs that needed doing while we waited for our timber delivery on the Monday so we could make a start on the cut timber roof.